billionUK:*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈbɪljən/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/ˈbɪljən/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling(bil′yən)
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billion
A billion is a thousand million, or 1,000,000,000. The website gets almost a billion visits each month. Be careful Don't add ‘-s’ to billion when you put another number in front of it. In January 1977, there were 4 billion people in the world. Forum discussions with the word(s) "billion" in the title: $1.135,0 million [1 billion or 1 million?] (numbers) - English Only forum
$250 billion of imports - English Only forum $5.7 billion figure - English Only forum $6.8 billion of cars - English Only forum $80 billion in interest on the national debt - English Only forum $980 billion American - English Only forum £1.27 billion as of 2010 - English Only forum £50 billion <worth of orders> - English Only forum € 1.7 billion - English Only forum 1.3 billion-strong country - English Only forum 10 billion kWh less - English Only forum 1000 (million dollars) = One thousand million/One billion? - English Only forum 18 billion shares traded - English Only forum 2 billion pounds HAS or HAVE been spent - English Only forum 2500 million = 2.5 billion - English Only forum 26.2 billion U.S. transactions - English Only forum 5 billion gigabytes of information was/were? - English Only forum a $13.6 billion initial vote for in emergency aid - English Only forum a $250 billion contingency fund? - English Only forum a $9 billion bet - English Only forum a billion and a third - English Only forum a billion dollars - English Only forum A billion fold - English Only forum a billion-dollar industry - English Only forum a world in which 7 billion of us live in perfect ecstasy - English Only forum A$8 billion - English Only forum A$8 billion in worldwide ticket sales - English Only forum about 0.4 part per billion - English Only forum added more than $1 billion to their spending with local businesses - English Only forum Alien Worlds Could Be Habitable Around Small Red Suns <for Up to 11 Billion Years> - English Only forum more...
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